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Statement of the MECO Advisory Board of 25 February 2022

The advisory board of MECO is shocked by the actions of the leadership of Russia against Ukraine – a MECO member. This act of violence goes against the values and aspirations of Europe’s scientists who, with the creation of MECO in 1974, sought to overcome the iron curtain that divided Eastern and Western countries.
The invasion of a free country is a brutal attack on the freedom of all nations, communities, and individuals. MECO’s aim is to enable scientific freedom for the academic community as an essential part of peaceful cooperation between countries. Academic freedom is only possible by respecting national freedom. The advisory board therefore calls on the academic community worldwide to maintain and support these values by condemning the actions of Russia’s leadership and calling for withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine with immediate effect.

B. Berche (Nancy), Z. Burda (Kraków), A. Cuccoli (Firenze), C. Dellago (Vienna), A. Fedorenko (Lyon), E. Frey (Münich), M. Henkel (Nancy), Yu. Holovatch (Lviv), A. Gambassi (Trieste), F. Igloi (Budapest), W. Janke (Leipzig), J. Kaupužs (Riga), R. Kenna (Coventry), G. Meissner (Saarbrücken), Z. Neda (Cluj-Napoca), H. Rieger (Saarbrücken), J. Sznajd (Wroclaw), S. Trimper (Halle), K. Uzelac (Zagreb)
Former members: A. Bäuerle (Linz), K. Binder (Mainz), R. Blinc (Ljubljana), M. Capizzi (Roma), C. Di Castro (Roma), E. Courtens (Lausanne), V. Dvorak (Prague), C. Enz (Genf), R. Folk (Linz), Z. Galasiewicz (Wroclaw), W. Kleemann (Duisburg), I. Kondor (Budapest), M. Kotrla (Prague), A. Kühnel (Leipzig ), A. Maritan (Trieste), F. Mezei (Berlin, Budapest), F. Milia (Athens), S. Milosevic (Beograd), K. Alex Müller (Zürich), R. Pick (Paris), L. Picman (Ljubljana), A. Rigamonti (Pavia), T. Schneider (Zürich), F. Schwabl (München), A. Surda (Bratislava), P. Szépfalusy (Budapest), H. Thomas (Basel), V. Tognetti (Firenze), J. C. Toledano (Saclay), I. Vilfan (Ljubljana), J. Villain (Grenoble), H. Warhanek (Venna)
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Scientific Curriculum vitae

Positions abroad

Administrative Acitivities

Grants

Publications

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Book


Phase Transitions in Ferroelectric Phosphorous Chalcogenide Crystals
by Vysochanskii, Yu. M., Janssen, T., Currat, R., Folk, R., Banys, J., Grigas, J., Samulionis, V., Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla 2006

Contibutions in books


V. Blavats'ka, c. von Ferber, R. Folk, and Yu. Holovatch, Renormalization group approaches to polymers in disordered media,
in STATISTICS OF LINEAR POLYMERS IN DISORDERED MEDIA
edited by B. Chakrabarti, Elsevier 2005
see the the "Ising Lectures"
R Folk, Introduction to Critical Dynamics, in ORDER, DISORDER AND CRITICALITY Advanced Problems of Phase Transition Theory Volume II
edited by Yurij Holovatch, World Scientific 2007
download the chapter "Vol VII Chapter 1"
R Folk, The Survival of Ernst Ising and, the Struggle to Solve His Model, in ORDER, DISORDER AND CRITICALITY Advanced Problems of Phase Transition Theory Volume VIII
edited by Yurij Holovatch, World Scientific 2023

Selected Posters, talks and papers

HISTORICAL TOPICS

Book
Catalogus Bibliothecae Observatorii Cremifanensis
Talks
Die fluide Welt des Leonhard Euler
The battle of books in the library of the observatory of the monastery Chremsminster
Der steinerne Kosmos des Andreas Pleninger. Astronomie und Astrologie im 16. Jahrhundert.
Der steinerne Kosmos des Andreas Pleninger. Kalendarisches und die Berechnung des Osterfestes.
The stony cosmos of Andreas Pleninger - Astronomy and time measurement around 1600
Time and Human Life - 1700 Years after Scipios Dream

Publications
R. Folk, Die fluide Welt des Leonhard Euler. In: (Hrsg) P.M. Schuster und F. Pichler, Georg v. Peuerbach Symposium- Konferenzbericht 2010 Modelle der Wirklichkeit vom späten Mittelalter bis zur Zeit der Aufklärung in Astronomie, Mathematik, Physik. Living Edition Pöllauberg Hainault Atascadero 2012. ISBN 978-1-901585-21-0
R. Folk, Uffenbach's "Zeitweiser" published 1598 in The Compendium, Journal of the North American Sundial Society, Vol. 21 Num. 3 Pag.4 September 2014 ISSN 1074-3197.
R. Folk, P. Altman Pötsch, Die Bildvorlagen der Epitaphien Andreas Pleningers. Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Landeskunde und Denkmalpflege Oberösterreichs. 159. Band Seiten 181 - 234 (2014)
R. Folk, P. Altman Pötsch, Die Bildvorlagen der Kalendertische des Andreas Pleninger. Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Landeskunde und Denkmalpflege Oberösterreichs. 161. Band Seiten 47 - 120 (2016)
R. Folk, Der steinerne Kosmos des Andreas Pleninger (1555 - 1607) - Astronomie und Zeitmessung um 1600, in Band 31 (2015): Wolfschmidt, Gudrun (Hg.): Astronomie in Franken - Von den Anfängen bis zur modernen Astrophysik - 125 Jahre Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg (1889). Proceedings der Tagung des Arbeitskreises Astronomiegeschichte in der Astronomischen Gesellschaft 2014. Hamburg: tredition.
R. Folk, . . . die vier größte Wunderwerck GOTtes . . . Himmel/ Erdt/ die Zeit und der Mensch - Glaube und Weltbild um 1600 in Philipp Uffenbachs „Zeitweiser“ - Astronomie und Zeitmessung um 1600, in Band 32 (2018): Wolfschmidt, Gudrun (Hg.): Astronomie und Astrologie im Kontext von Religionen Proceedings der Tagung des Arbeitskreises Astronomiegeschichte in der AG in Göttingen 2017. Hamburg: tredition.
T. Ising, R. Folk, R. Kenna, B. Berche, Y. Holovatch, The Fate of Ernst Ising and the Fate of his Model, Journ. Phys. Stud. 21(3) : 3002 (2017)>
R. Folk, Yu. Holovatch, Crossing borders in the 19th century and now -- two examples of weaving a scientific network , Condens. Matter Phys. 23(2) : 23001 (2020)
R. Folk, Knotting the MECO Network, Entropy 23(2):141 (2021)
R. Folk, Yu. Holovatch, Schottky's forgotten step to the Ising model. Eur. J. Phys. H vol. 47 (2022) 9
R Folk, The Survival of Ernst Ising and the Struggle to Solve His Model , Chapter submitted to the book: Order, Disorder and Criticality: Advanced Problems of Phase Transition Theory. Ed. by Yu. Holovatch. Vol. 7, 2022, World Scientific, Singapore

Preprints
Der astronomische Tisch des Andreas Pleninger aus dem Jahr 1603
Das Astrolabium am Kalendertisch im Historischen Museum in Regensburg
Der steinerne Kosmos des Andreas Pleninger. Beitrag zur Tagung Pöllau 2012.


Links
Ising Lectures
Objekt des Monats aus dem Museum der Sternwarte Kremsmünster April 2019
Objekt des Monats aus dem Museum der Sternwarte Kremsmünster August 2019


Last modified: 11/2023 by: Folk